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VMware provides a Mac OS X native virtualization client, dubbed Fusion. VMware Fusion is a type 2 hypervisor, meaning that it runs on top of an existing operating system (OS X) as an application. Furthermore, the application currently requires an active user session, which definitely has implications when deploying in a server environment. In such a case, a type 1 hypervisor, or bare metal hypervisor, is typically desirable in a server environment, allowing a system s virtualized operating systems to operate independently of each other. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing there are no true type 1 hypervisor s available for OS X. That said, VMware Fusion does have support for hosting both Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 server environments. Where Fusion

succeeds is desktop OS virtualization, such as Microsoft Windows. A little later, VMware came on strong with Mac support and provides through Fusion a stable solution with good features and very decent performance. The best way to deploy VMware Fusion to Mac clients is via an installer package. However, at first glance, the VMware Fusion installer is actually an application, and not an installer package. Never fear, there is in fact a native installer package, it s just hidden inside the application bundle s Resources folder. As such, you can extract this package for mass deployment, without the installer application, to deploy VMware Fusion with very little effort, provided that you do not require any customizations. Many environments will choose to customize the application installer. If you plan to do so then you may need to create a package or use a combination of two packages, one to deploy the actual package and another to deploy the license file. The VM itself will typically warrant its own installer as well. Splitting items up into individual packages can enable you to later replace only specific components on clients, conserving bandwidth, disk space and other resources. Deploying VMware Fusion on Mac OS X is a three-step process. The first step is to deploy the VMware Fusion application. This is the software that allows you to run a guest operating system in a virtual machine. The second step in the process is to deploy the virtual machines themselves. Each virtual machine will run its own guest operating system which will need its own post-deployment configuration. This final configuration makes up the third step. In many cases, the guest operating system will be able to hook into an existing Windows deployment infrastructure and utilize in-place systems for policy management, and automations. Since this is not always the case, once we cover the initial deployment process, we will review bolting on a new management infrastructure for Open Directory environments. For those using a package based imaging solution, we typically recommend breaking your VMware Fusion deployment up into three separate packages. The first will be the VMware Fusion 2 installer package. The second will be the serial number (unless you embed the serial number into the installer package) and the third will be the virtual machines, where each likely has a separate package. The more granular the approach, the more work it will seem like you have up front, yet a granular approach will require less work once you move from imaging to patch management.

As described in 6, a monolithic image will contain all of the items needed to deploy a workstation in a single image and will not typically rely on bolting any additional software. Adding VMware Fusion to a monolithic Mac OS X image is a fairly straightforward process: manually install VMware Fusion on your base image using a volume license. If you don t have a Volume License, then you ll need a postflight script or package to deploy a new license on each client after they receive the initial software.